From Inside Higher Ed: In the latest escalation of its fight with Harvard University, the Trump administration is terminating hundreds more research grants to the university and its medical school, The Boston Globe reported. Researchers in a variety of fields received funding-termination notices... from a number of different federal agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Departments of Defense and Energy, the Globe reported. Harvard Medical School alone saw more than 350 grants impacted.
“The scale of what happened is incomprehensible—a bloodbath for research and the wider community,” Brittany Charlton, associate professor at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, told the Globe. “Entire labs are unraveling, and young scientists on training grants may be suddenly adrift. Work that could change lives—or save them—is being brought to a standstill.” The cuts come on top of the $2.2 billion the Trump administration froze in April after Harvard president Alan Garber rejected its sweeping demands for change, and an additional $450 million frozen last week...
[Education Secretary MacMahon indicated] an eagerness to resume negotiations with Harvard, but also made clear the department has additional tools it could deploy to pressure the university to comply, noting that so far only about a third of the university's $9 billion in federal support has been canceled...
Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/05/19/nearly-third-harvards-federal-funds-have-been-canceled.
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